Greg Hernandez has written about the entertainment world for more than a decade. He is a veteran of covering many Academy Awards shows (plus Emmys, Grammys and Golden Globes) as well as film festivals, movie premieres and philanthropic events. Hernandez founded the popular Out In Hollywood blog while a writer and columnist for the “Los Angeles Daily News.” He’s also a former staff writer at the “Los Angeles Times” and “The Hollywood Reporter” and has been a contributing writer to “The Advocate.” Greg is the founder and editor of Greginhollywood.com

NLGJA-LA and the Los Angeles Press Club present: Out in the Newsroom: A look at LGBT coverage and careers in journalism.
A panel of openly gay journalists will share experiences and advice on being out in journalism today. What are the pros and cons of being out to your superiors, co-workers, sources? What is the responsibility of a gay journalist when it comes to a news organization’s LGBT coverage? Has sexuality become a non-issue, an advantage? A disadvantage?
Event moderated by Variety political editor Ted Johnson. Panel includes CNN’s Miguel Marquez, Pulitzer Prize winner Bettina Boxall of the LA Times, Emmy winner Mekahlo Medina of NBC4, Former LA Times Assistant Travel Editor Jane Engle, and 2013 GLAAD Media Award nominee Phillip Zonkel of the Long Beach Press Telegram to our panel!
11 am to 1 pm at Los Angeles Press Club’s Steve Allen Theater: 4773 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90027
Event has a suggested donation of $5 to benefit NLGJA-LA scholarship fund. Lunch will be provided, so RSVP ahead of time via Facebook page if you’re sure you’ll be there.
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By Greg Hernandez
HollywoodNews.com:Barbra Streisand’s performance of Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born) was one of the highlights of the 1977 Academy Awards ceremony.
She was at the peak of her considerable powers not only singing a song from a movie she starred in and produced, but it was a song she had written (with Paul Williams). And, she won the Oscar for best original song to go along for the Oscar she won for acting in Funny Girl.
With today being Oscar Sunday, it seems appropriate that Showtune Sunday be dedicated to a quartet of Oscar-winning songs performed on the Academy Awards telecast. Included are Streisand’s performance of Evergreen, Madonna performing Sooner or Later from Dick Tracy and Celine Dion’s powerful performance of My Heart Will Go On from The Titanic. Then there is Celine again dueting with Peabo Bryson on Beauty and the Beast.
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By Greg Hernandez
HollywoodNews.com: Aretha, Barbra, Cher, Janet and JLo among others on Whitney. “She had everything, beauty, a magnificent voice. How sad her gifts could not bring her the same happiness they brought us,” said Barbra Streisand.
My feelings about Whitney!Life is hard 4 everyone,Sadness Disappointment, Loss,Fear,insecurity,Loneliness, IMAGINE DOING IT IN A SPOTLIGHT, said Cher.
Aretha Franklin
I just can’t talk about it now. It’s so stunning and unbelievable. I couldn’t believe what I was reading coming across the TV screen.
Aretha Franklin
My heart goes out to Cissy, her daughter Bobbi Kris, her family and Bobby.
Janet Jackson
Please cherish life and those around you. Tomorrow is never promised.
JLo Jennifer Lopez
Such a loss. One of the greatest voices of our time. Sending out prayers to her family… #R.I.P.Whitney.
Ricky Martin
RIP Whitney Houston. Sending my love and deepest condolences to her family and friends. Fly Whitney Fly
Sean Hayes
The voice of a music legend has been quieted today. R.I.P. for one of the most amazing artists of our time – Whitney Houston.
Kathy Griffin
She was A TALENT & A LEGEND. She was never a “reality star” No jokes from me about Miss Houston today.
Cheyenne Jackson
Whitney, I’ll always love u.
Nia Vardalos
RIP Whitney Houston, we sang along and fell in love to your songs.
Chris Colfer
Whitney Houston #IWillAlwaysLoveYou
Ricki Lake
Listening to #WhitneyHouston on the radio. What a loss.
Joan Rivers
Whitney Houston. What a sad tragedy-the end of the life of an incredible talent. RIP to an amazing singer and legend.
Rosie O’Donnell
Dear God … There is a grief that can’t be spoken #DEVASTATED
Chely Wright
Whitney Houston, rest in peace. I can’t stop crying. So sad.
Lance Bass
Another incredible talent lost way too soon. Thanks for entertaining us all Whitney!
Linda Perry
This is tragic terribly sad news. Whitney Houston was such a powerful presence & a lost soul. Her voice made me cry, She will be missed.
Wilson Cruz
OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!! I can’t take it. I am overcome with grief.
Serena Williams
#OneMomentInTime has propelled me to many of my grand slams victories. #whitneyhouston
Sandra Bernhard
let’s remember too #whitneyhouston came from a long line of greats her mom #cissyhouston cousin #dionnewarwick godmother #arethafranklin
Ryan Seacrest
At Grammys rehearsal hearing Whitney Houston has passed away at 48. Everyone here is absolutely stunned.
Brad Goreski
I’m so incredibly saddened by the news that Whitney Houston has died. Words cannot describe how her voice touched my life. So tragic
Ross Mathews
OMG. TMZ says Whitney Houston has died? So sad.
George Kotsiopoulos
Yesterday on @e_FashionPolice we were […]

By Greg Hernandez
HollywoodNews.com: Of course Brad Pitt first got my attention in that famous sex scene he had with Geena Davis in Thelma & Louise. That face! Those abs!
Twenty years later, Pitt is a bigger star than ever with a string of outstanding films to his credit including this year’s Tree of Life and Moneyball. He seems certain to earn his third Oscar nomination for the latter film.
I’m not just a fan of Brad’s because of his movies. He has also emerged as a staunch straight ally in the fight for LGBT equality. When same-sex marriage was passed in New York earlier this year he said: “It is encouraging that New York has joined the movement to grant equal marriage rights to its citizens. But it is each American’s Constitutional right to marry the person they love, no matter what state they inhabit. No state should decide who can marry and who cannot. Thanks to the tireless work of so many, someday soon this discrimination will end and every American will be able to enjoy their equal right to marriage.”
Let’s hope Brad is correct and that he has a very happy 48th birthday!
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By Greg Hernandez
HollywoodNews.com: I’m going to be partying with friends in West Hollywood on New Year’s Eve so you won’t find me watching a television.
But you can be sure that the next day, I’ll be on YouTube watching the highlights from CNN’s coverage featuring the fun pair of Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper.
Kathy paid a visit to Jimmy Kimmel this week and shared a list of goals she has for this year’s broadcast:
”My first goal is to get Anderson fired. Literally before midnight, somebody from CNN just says, ‘That’s it buddy, you’re out.’”
She wants to expose a breast during the broadcast: “If I can just whip one out on CNN…”
Then there’s this: ”I’m going to probably drunk dial Wolf Blitzer.”
And this: ”I’m going to give Anderson what’s called a rohypnol.”
And finally: ”I’m going to hog-tie Ryan Seacrest and hide him in a can of peanut brittle.”

By Greg Hernandez
HollywoodNews.com: It’s great to see the terrific film Beginners getting some awards attention. It’s the story of a father (Christopher Plummer) and son (Ewan McGregor) and what happens when the father comes out late in life.
McGregor talked to Frontiers IN LA about the movie, his popularity with gay audiences and more. Here is an excerpt:
In Beginners, your character goes through a process that’s almost like a rediscovery of his father when Christopher Plummer’s character comes out at the age of 75. Did you personally discover anything about the gay community through the making of the film that you hadn’t known beforehand?
I learned a lot about American gay history, because I think Mike [Mills, the film’s director] really beautifully explores it in the montages where he’s looking back at his father’s life as a young gay man in the early ‘50s, with an aim to try to understand what that might be like and why his father made the choices that he made. He makes it very real, that history, and it doesn’t feel like a history lesson. It’s an exploration of his dad’s younger years. And then how not very long ago gay men were being thrown into the back of police trucks and arrested for going to gay coffee shops. That sort of stuff I found very interesting—how recently it happened, when it seems so long ago.
You’re a very popular actor among the gay community for many reasons, but primarily because you appear in films and roles that really speak to gay men. How do you choose which roles you take on?
Well, it’s just a very gut process really. I’m not very complicated about it—if I find a script I don’t want to put down and I like that it’s firing my imagination and I start to see myself in that role, and it’s about something I’m interested to talk about, then I’ll do it. It’s kinda as simple as that really. I try not to make it anymore complicated than that.
http://www.halamovie.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/201105/87e1e_i-love-you-phillip-morris—official-still.jpgOccasionally it does [get more complicated]—I suppose the more you do it, the more you start thinking about directors. You know, I’ve made a lot of films, and you start thinking, “Well OK, now I want to make really good films.” You try to narrow down the possibilities of them not being good, so I suppose nowadays I take more note about the directors. But then […]

HollywoodNews.com: This is incredibly cool news: Mario Cantone, best known for his role of Anthony on the Sex and the City television series and feature films, announced on The View Friday that he and partner Jerry Dixon have gotten married.
They have been together 20 years – far longer than any of Donald Trump’s three marriages, either marriage of Britney Spears, or Shannon Doherty’s three trips down the aisle.
“I got married for the same reasons you did,” Mario said to co-host Joy Behar. “We’re older now. We’ve been together 20 years. After 20 years you’re like, ‘Thanks for the anti-climactic honeymoon government!’ “
He added: “It was beautiful, just my family there. I love him. He’s a good man.”
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HollywoodNews.com: Reading my copy of People magazine a few nights ago, it was strange to be going through an interview with Wanda Sykes where the funny lady isn’t making any jokes.
That’s because Wanda was talking about her fight against breast cancer which resulted in her decision to have both of her breasts removed: “I just wanted the best odds. I made my decision because I love life.”
Wanda was diagnosed with a noninvasive type of breast cancer in February when her tissue was tested after breast reduction: “My first thought was, ‘Really? Me, breast cancer?’ I just couldn’t believe it.”
The former New Adventures of Old Christine star underwent a bilateral mastectomy in August and spent the next month healing at home with her wife, Alex.
“I was miserable,” she said. “Every day I had to change the bandages and look at it, and it was not pretty at all. I just wanted my life back.”
But she has since turned a corner and resumed performing her stand-up act.
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HollywoodNews.com: Singer/activist Elton John singled out New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo during his foundation’s annual benefit this week as an example for others to follow.
According to the Associated Press, Elton thanked Cuomo – who was seated in the audience – for “taking a stand in New York and making the dream of marriage equality a reality in the state.”
In July, New York became the sixth U.S. state to recognize same-sex nuptials and Cuomo was seen as instrumental in its passage.
Wednesday night was the 10th annual Enduring Vision gala for the Elton John AIDS Foundation and it raised $2 million.
Alec Baldwin, Jon Bon Jovi and Sarah Ferguson were among the celebrities in attendance.
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HollywoodNews.com: You won’t be able to see Ricky Martin as Che in the upcoming Broadway revival of Evita until April 5, 2012 when the production is scheduled to open at The Marquis Theatre.
But previews will begin Monday, March 12, 2012 and tickets go on sale this Saturday at 10:00 am via www.ticketmaster.com / 1-800-745-3000.